Wand + Staff PvE AoE Grind Build
- Amazing AOE Damage
- Easy to play
- Low mobility
- Low Single Target DPS
Overview
This Wand & Tome and Staff PVE build focuses on AOE grinding large amounts of mobs for rare drops, contracts or lithograph grinding. It can also excel in open world dungeons grinding high level mobs with a group for drops or contracts.
Attributes
Your primary focus with this build should be Dexterity for increased damage, getting that to 30 should be your priority before moving on to perception and getting that also up to 30 for even more damage, rest of your points should go into wisdom for a bit of extra mana regeneration and maximum mana. Coupled with the mana passives and 
Inner Peace, it will all help you move between packs of mobs with ease without running out.
Skills
Skill Priority
When prioritizing skill upgrades, focus on getting 
Swift Healing up along with 
Inject Venom as they make the biggest impact, allowing you to stack poison up to 20 on your targets while rare level of Swift Healing allows you to cast the ability twice. Rare level of 
Touch of Despair also increases the number of curse stacks you can place on a target. Afterwards you should turn your focus on 
Shadow Strike so you can lower it's cooldown and also bind targets whenever you teleport behind them.
Passives Priority
You should prioritize 
Devotion and Emptiness as it increases the amount of healing you provide through all your healing abilities and it couples well with 
Noble Revival. Meanwhile, 
Wraith's Beckon extends the duration of your curses, providing extra healing thanks to 
Vampiric Contract, allowing the use of your curses to heal the frontline of your group without your active healing attention. 
Assassin's Instincts, is a good offensive passive that grants you extra critical hit while 
Shadow Walker is our only defensive option.
Weapon Masteries
| Damage | Base Damage |
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Damage Bonus |
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Witch's Contract |
|
Base Damage |
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Range Up |
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Regenerative Meditation |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Wisdom |
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Deep Pain |
| Recovery | Melee Defense |
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Attack Speed |
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Redemptive Penance |
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All Evasion |
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Range Up |
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Merciless Wraith |
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Buff Duration |
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Mana Regen |
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Spiritual Locus |
| Weaken | Mana Regen |
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Enfeeble Chance |
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Time of the Curse |
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Max Mana |
|
Cooldown Speed |
|
Spell of Retribution |
|
Enfeeble Chance |
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Magic Hit |
|
Spell of Retribution |
| Disguise | Ranged Defense |
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Health Regen |
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Debuff Immunity |
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Mana Cost Efficiency |
|
Cooldown Speed |
|
Master of Evasion |
|
Buff Duration |
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Ranged Defense |
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Strong Will |
| Poison | Melee Hit |
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Off-Hand Weapon Attack Chance |
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Enfeebling Terror |
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Mana Regen |
|
Buff Duration |
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Sorrowful Silence |
|
Mana Cost Efficiency |
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Melee Hit |
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Shrewd Judgment |
| Assassination | Melee Critical Hit |
|
Base Damage |
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Ambidexterity |
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Melee Critical Hit |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Deep Grudge |
|
Base Damage |
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Skill Damage Boost |
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Maddening Excitement |
Wand:
Allocating 9 points into Recovery is the best strategy as it amplifies your healing capacity while also boosting mana regeneration. The remaining 3 points can be distributed to Weaken, primarily to extend the duration of damage you do with your curses.
Dagger: Investing 9 points into Disguise is ideal as it provides passive defensives that will help you stay alive even when under pressure, being able to shrug off chip damage easier while the rest of 3 points can go Poison for a bit of extra damage and weaken chance.
Rotations
- With this rotation you want to find a target that is close enough and you can keep following. You want to start by popping up your Inject Venom so all the following spells you use will spread your poison to everyone that gets hit. Once that's active, you cast Touch of Despair to get a stack of curses on your main target, then follow up by debuffing them with
Time for Punishment that will decrease their resistances. Follow up with 
Karmic Haze in order to spread all curses and poison to other targets before casting 
Corrupted Magic Circle on top of your main target and the group of players around them in order to spread your curses further. Finally use 
Curse Explosion to deliver high damage to all targets previously infected by the mix of curses and poison.
Cursed Nightmare: This is the ability you use in order to disable incoming enemy engagers or targets that are trying to run away from you. Keep in mind that it takes 3 seconds for the spell to take effect.
Clay's Salvation: This is your AoE healing ability. Try to use it whenever your group mates are close together so the AoE heal can reach all of them.
Fountain of Life: Use this during pushes, placing it on the frontline as they engage into a fight or placing it within your zerg while you are fighting over a position will provide much needed healing.
Swift Healing: This is your only single target healing ability and you should use it in order to save overextending party members that took too much damage or on yourself.
Shadow Strike: You can use this ability either to reposition or to lock down a target that pushed into your zerg, binding and silencing them for your team to kill.
Camouflage Cloak: Camouflage Cloak offers you stealth and a way to disengage whenever you are being focused, taking the heat off yourself.
Gear
- Weapons:
Lequirus's Thorny Edge + 
Lequirus's Grip - Traits 1: Health Regen > Weapon Damage > Hit
- Traits 2: Heavy Attack Chance > Max Health > Weapon Damage
- Helmet:
Reaper's Black Mask - Traits: Magic Evasion > Ranged Evasion > Magic Endurance - Cloak:
Archpriest's Devotion - Traits: Max Mana > Mana Regen > Skill Damage Resistance - Chest:
Miracle of Mother Nature Clothing - Traits: Magic Evasion > Magic Endurance > Melee Evasion - Gloves:
Reaper's Hand of Death - Traits: Max Mana > Magic Evasion > Ranged Evasion - Pants:
Special Resistance Hawk Pants - Traits: Max Mana > Mana Regen > Magic Evasion - Boots:
Resonance of Mother Nature Boots - Traits: Max Mana > Mana Regen > Magic Evasion - Necklace:
Holy Warrior's Choker - Traits: Skill Damage Boost > Max Health > Buff Duration - Rings:
Insightful Ring of Dimension + 
Eternal Ring of Dimension - Traits 1: Max Health > Health Regen > Skill Damage Boost
- Traits 2: Max Health > Health Rege > Skill Damage Boost
- Belt:
Duke Magna's Belt - Traits: Max Health > Health Regen > Skill Damage Resistance - Bracelet:
Beast King's Gilded Bracers - Traits: Max Health > Skill Damage Resistance > Health Regen
Useful Information
- Choose Lady Knight Kamarshea as your guardian; it offers vital protection with its shield, capable of absorbing damage equal to 50% of your mana. This not only aids in mitigating damage but also increases your cooldown speed, allowing you to heal more frequently.
Comments
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